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Your privacy matters here. This explains what we collect, why we collect it, and how we protect it, in plain English, not legalese.
We collect only what we need to make the experience genuinely useful. Nothing more.
Everything we collect serves a clear purpose. We use your data to make the experience feel like it was built for you, because it is.
Tailoring recommendations and conversation context to your actual interests, not generic guesses.
Refining recommendations and conversation quality: your feedback and interaction history shape what the AI suggests next. We don’t train our own models on your data.
Detecting fraud, preventing abuse, and keeping your account safe.
Responding to questions, resolving issues, and making sure things actually work.
A talking avatar can’t run on one server. These are the companies involved and what each one actually receives.
Each of these companies handles what it receives under its own terms and retention rules, which are theirs to set. This site doesn’t train models of its own on your data.
You own your data. Here’s what that means in practice.
Request a copy of everything we have on you, in a readable format.
Update or fix inaccurate information through your account or by contacting us.
Ask us to delete your data. We’ll comply, subject only to legal retention requirements.
Export your data in a machine-readable format to take with you wherever you go.
We keep data for as long as it’s useful, then delete it. We protect what we hold.
Kept while your account is active, deleted within 90 days of a closure request.
Kept until deleted; automatic deletion isn’t built yet. Deletable on request.
Retained for up to 3 years to improve recommendations. Deletable on request.
Chatting as a guest. You can talk to the avatar without an account. Your first message starts a guest session: a random id, kept in a cookie for up to 30 days, with no name or email of yours. Each message you send and the avatar’s reply are saved under that id, with the time, the earlier messages sent along with it, the mood the avatar read in it, and how the reply was made (the model, the documents it drew on, any tools it tried). Guest chats are never used to build a profile and are not linked to any Google account. Your IP address is used only to count questions and new sessions from one network, and those counts are erased when their hour or day is over. If a new guest session is refused because too many have started from one network, the address may also appear in the server’s log. Guest chats are not yet deleted automatically; they stay until they are deleted by hand. To have yours deleted, write to chris@chrisrichardson.dev with roughly when you chatted and what you asked (a guest session has no email to look it up by), and I’ll delete it and tell you when it’s done.
All data is encrypted in transit, and the site runs on managed infrastructure with access limited to its author. If there’s ever a breach affecting you, you’ll be notified promptly, because it’s the law where applicable, and the right thing to do everywhere else.
The conversational AI and recommendation engine use your data to personalize responses. Here’s the honest version of what that means.
Your conversation history, reading preferences, and stated interests inform the AI’s responses during a session. The model runs at an outside provider (OpenAI by default, Anthropic when configured), so that context leaves this site to be processed. The model card lists exactly what is sent.
Conversations are logged, including guest chats, to improve response quality. You can request deletion of your conversation history at any time.
If we make material changes to this policy, we’ll notify you by email or through the site at least 30 days before they take effect. Minor updates (like fixing a typo) won’t trigger a notification, but the “Last Updated” date will always reflect the most recent revision.
Privacy questions, data requests, or concerns: there’s a real person on the other end of this. I aim to respond within 30 days, usually much faster.